The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative 9780521034692

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Literary studies: general

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Cambridge university press

The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative : Cambridge University Press : 9780521034692 : 0521034698 : 14 Dec 2006 : The poet Petrarch imagined that the hopeless but pure love of a woman could lead a man to heaven. In sixteenth-century England Edmund Spenser wrote poetry in the petrarchan tradition while heightening its dilemmas--flirting with a very different kind of feminine image. Dorothy Stephens shows that this flirtation emerges only in conditional language and situations, and that the eroticism the reader feels often belies a narrator's insistence that it is illusory. She goes on to look at responses to Spenser's eroticism among male and female writers in the seventeenth century.

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